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obtuso ; gluma II“ I*» zequans, elliptica v. lanceolato-elliptica, acuta, - 
chartacea, glabra, tricarinata, carina media infra medium valde 
elevata, ssepe gibba; III" quam FL" paullo brevior, late oblonga, 
obtusiuscula, hyalina, marginibus implicata, prope marginem utrinque 
1-nervis v. subenervis, glabra, paleam fovens eam æquantem lineari- 
oblongam hyalinam enervem v. obsolete binervem glabram floremque 
d; gluma IV* quam II? '/,—'/, brevior, obovato-oblonga, obtusa, 
hyalina, glabra. Lodiculæ altero margine spe corniculatze. Antherze 
2—2,5 mm. longs. Stigmata stylos sepius subduplo superantia. 
Spiculz in summo raeemo sæpe plus minus mutilatze. 
Genus naturalissimum, ab Ischaemo valde diversum (spiculis prima- 
riis ad pedicellos glumiformes redactis, secundariis muticis, gluma 
I»: pectinata, IV* fere enervi), Apocopi propius, sed spiculis prorsus 
mutieis, pedicellis glumiformibus, floribus triandris, lodicularum: 
presentia, stigmatibus e latere spicularum exsertis distinctum. Ob 
spiculas muticas Rottbeellieis quodammodo accedit. — Eremochloë 
S. Watson in Bot. King. Exped. p. 382 (1871) est genus Festucearum, 
eujus nomen (Büseano multo posterius) in Blepharidachnen mutari 
propono, (Species: Blepharidachne Kingii et B. Bigelovii = Eremochl. 
Kingii et E. Bigelovii S. Wats.) 
A. Pedicelli steriles glumseformes, plerumque lineari-lanceolati, plani, acutius- 
culi, mutici, sine rudimento spicule. — Culmus infra racemum plerum- 
que glaberrimus. Ligula ssepius brevissima, membranacea, truncata, 
glabra, raro intus pilis stipata. Gluma Im prster nervos carinales 
7-nervis. Species nr. 1—6, inter se valde affines. 
1. E. ophiuroides; folis glaberrimis, ligula brevissima, trun- 
cata; racemo recto v. rectiusculo; spicula? subquadrato-oblong& 
rhachi arcte appress® gluma I™ plana in '/, superiore utrinque ala 
obtriangulari lata munita inde truncato-emarginata, in !/, inferiore 
spinulis brevissimis (0,5 mm. longis) antrorsum curvatis basi con- 
fluentibus pectinata, callo minute puberulo. — Ischemum ophiuroides 
Munro in Proceed, Amer. Acad. 4, p. 563 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 425. 
Rhizoma plus minus repens. Culmi ascendentes, parte erecta 12— 
15 em. longi, graciles, 2—3-nodes, nodo supremo in "'/, inferiore 
eulmi sito, compressi, simplices v. e nodo penultimo (basi valde 
approximato) ramos 1—2 fastigiatos simplices agentes, superne longe 
nudi, subclavati. i Vapaa nodis minute puberulæ, ceterum glaberrimæ, 
laxiusculæ, i fi I ,2—4cm. 
longe, 1 dici mm. lat, laeves. Racemus t-j cm. longus, gracilis, 
